Posted by starbaby on August 27, 2005, at 11:01:34
In reply to I was, posted by messadivoce on July 23, 2005, at 1:53:49
Messa,
So glad to see this post on here. I'm a newbie to the board, but not to homeschooling. I've homeschooled my 15 year old daughter most of her life (with the exception of 16 months that we tried Kindergarten and part of 1st grade), and it has always worked for us. She consistantly scores high on the testing we do every year, and has no problem socializing with people of any age, child or adult. She has recently decided to give public high school a try, mainly because of me being divorced now, I am working close to full time, and cannot get her to all of the activities that we used to take part of. She seems to be doing quite well, acing her chemistry and drama so far and doing "B" work in English and Algebra II. She's all ready made a lot of new friends, as well.
We "unschooled", a la John Holt style, and it has provided her with a wealth of information about the world that I don't think she would have gotten in public or private school. She researched what she found interesting at the time, and I tied in other activities to expand on what she was learning. Of course this always led to questions about similar subjects, and the learning just "took off" from there.
I am (still) president of our homeschool support group, and we currently have 224 families in it, with ages ranging from 2 years old to high school ages. We have lots of activities planned and it's great that the children have a chance to interact with those of all ages, not just their "grade" group of peers. I also moderate two homeschool e-groups.
If anyone has any questions about homeschooling in general or state requirements, I'd be happy to try to answer them, or point them in the right direction.
*starbaby*
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